Archive for October, 2002
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002
I finished the review of SuSE 8.1 for Penguin Shell yesterday. After a little more than a week with it, I felt pretty good about recommending it for new Linux users. Easy install, clean interface, nice package selection, and a great configuration and package management tool in YaST2. All in ...
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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002
The BBC is reporting the first known success of distributed computing, the solution of a complex process known as protein "folding" which may play a role in Alzheimer's Disease. More than 200,000 PC owners have offered up their machines during idle time to perform the complex calculations necessary to understand ...
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Monday, October 21st, 2002
There's a hotly contested Congressional race in my district in Iowa. The First Congressional District was recently redrawn, leaving incumbent Jim Leach a bit in the lurch. He moved his offices to Iowa City and hit the campaign trail against Julie Thomas. It's looking more likely each day that the ...
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Monday, October 21st, 2002
Mitch Kapor's building an Outlook killer. This article on Slashdot really caught my attention. First off, I'm for anything that can provide a useful level of fucntionality in a new and forward-thinking way. Secondly, this was exactly the type of product we envisioned at Murl during its brief life ...
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Monday, October 21st, 2002
I upgraded to Movable Type 2.5 this weekend. What a breeze. It took 20 minutes from start to finish and went flawlessly. Hats off to Ben and Mena for this very tight upgrade to what's already an incredible Personal Publishing System.
You can see, too, that I'm still finding the comfort ...
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Sunday, October 20th, 2002
The Register reports that Scottish Power has locked out Linux and Opera users from taking advantage of it's online payment feature. Linux users get this error message:
We have detected certain aspects of your system that will prevent you experiencing this site fully.
These are: You are not running a Windows or ...
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Saturday, October 19th, 2002
The Bush administration is working toward a compromise resolution on Iraq with the UN Security Council. According to Reuters:
In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Friday the United States was flexible on a U.N. resolution, but added that the Bush administration's approach was quite different from that of ...
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Saturday, October 19th, 2002
Over in Collision Detection, Clive points to an article in the NY Times about the trend toward tracking the views of your online audience when creating television shows.
What digital culture is doing is turning all art into live art: You throw out a riff, see what the response is like, ...
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Friday, October 18th, 2002
I grew up in a small town in Iowa, the stepson of a man who had some prominence, by way of ownership of the local radio station, in the community. I took a beating, both verbally and occasionally physically, based on nothing more than the fact that I belonged to ...
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Thursday, October 17th, 2002
With the Suse install up and running smoothly, I can move back for a bit to writing on other subjects. I've done a helluva lot of tech writing this week, for sure. Long newsletter issues and eighteen tech-related entries in Frankly. I know - I can hear those sympathetic sighs ...
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